Lecture on ‘How Science Got Women Wrong’ from award-winning broadcaster and journalist
March 4, 2019
Award-winning science journalist Angela Saini is giving a special lecture on International Women’s Day, 8 March, where she will discuss science’s failure to understand women. Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist and broadcaster. She regularly presents science programmes for the BBC, and her writing has appeared in New Scientist, the Guardian, The Times, and Wired. Her latest book, Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong, was published in 2017 to …
International Women’s Day 2019 at The University of Nottingham
February 15, 2019
To celebrate International Women’s Day on Friday 8 March 2019, we have a combination of cross university events, specialists events led by faculties and an online celebration of inspirational women taking place throughout March. We hope that many of our staff and student colleagues will take part in these events in recognition of the outstanding contribution that …
International Women’s Day 2018
February 21, 2018
Thursday 8 March is International Women’s Day 2018. In celebration of this date, a number of activities and events are set to take place at the University of Nottingham. International Women’s Day is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for …
Maternity/ Adoption/ Shared Parental Leave Focus Groups – Feedback and Next Steps
December 15, 2017
We recently held a series of focus groups to explore experiences of taking maternity/adoption/shared parental leave and returning to work following that leave. Focus groups took place on five campuses (University Park, Jubilee, QMC, Sutton Bonington and Derby) with a good number of staff attending – two of whom brought their babies along. There was …
Come along to the Christmas Fair
November 22, 2017
The Women’s Staff Network would like to welcome you to their Christmas Fair taking place in the Medical School Foyer of Queen’s Medical Centre on Tuesday 5 December at 11am until 2pm. The Fair will host nearly 30 stalls selling Christmas crafts, jewellery, cards, flowers, bird boxes, planters, decoupage, beauty products, bags, hair accessories, crochet …
“No Sexuality Please: We’re Scientists!” Hidden Diversity in Chemistry and the sciences
May 15, 2017
It’s always great to be invited to an event that one of our Schools is delivering, and this week Charlotte from the P&C team had the pleasure to visit the School of Chemistry to hear Professor David K Smith of the University of York give a fantastic talk ‘No Sexuality Please; We’re Scientists’ about his …
Your chance to rename the Women’s development programmes
November 4, 2016
Award winning women’s development programmes for staff The University has award winning women’s development programmes for staff: ‘PEAR’ programme for women working at levels 1-3 – O&S, APM and technical services staff ‘APPLE’ programme for women working at levels 4-5 – Assistant Professors, Laboratory Managers, Research Fellows & Senior Research Fellows ‘WAND’ programme …
#techmums in Nottingham
October 13, 2016
By Dr Sarah Martindale Last year two PhD students, Annie Quandt and Georgiana Avram, from UoN’s Horizon Centre for Doctoral Training organised an event about women in the digital economy. One of the speakers they invited was the inspirational Dr Sue Black. She was named one of the Guardian’s top-50 women in tech, and was …
It’s all about the girls: Looking beyond Ada Lovelace
October 5, 2016
Ada Lovelace Day is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), but in order to move forward we have to acknowledge the challenges we still face. A 2011 report from CBI found that more than half (52%) of UK STEM employers expected to struggle to find employees …
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